Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies - University of Texas at Dallas

Address: 800 W. Campbell Road
Richardson, TX 75080
Phone: 972-883-2100
Fax: 972-883-2101
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Website: https://ackerman.utdallas.edu/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AckermanCenter

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Nils Roemer
Principal Staff Members:
Bonnie Gordon, Administrative Assistant
Cynthia Rogers, Teaching Assistant

Year Established: 1986
Staff: Salaried - 3; Faculty - 4

Type of Organization or Mission: University Holocaust studies program

Services: Holocaust studies library collection and reading room; Annual invited lectures and public lectures by faculty; Graduate certificate in Holocaust studies; Graduate fellowships in Holocaust studies; Professorial chairs in Holocaust studies

Media: Annual Burton Einspruch lectures posted on web

Address: 300 N. Houston Street
Dallas, TX 75202
Phone: 214-741-7500
Fax: 214-747-2270
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Website: https://www.dhhrm.org/ 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dhhrm/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dhhrm_org

Director/Person-in-Charge: Mary Pat Higgins, President/CEO
Principal Staff Members:
Sara Abosch-Jacobson, Ph.D., Chief Education, Programs & Exhibitions Officer
Kerri Lai, Chief Advancement and External Affairs Officer
Kelly Rosales, Chief Financial Officer

Year Established: 1984
Staff: Salaried - 30; Volunteer - 200 
Days and Hours Open to the Public: https://www.dhhrm.org/visit/general-admission/

Type of Organization or Mission: Educational Resource Center; Museum; Memorial

Services: Permanent Exhibition; Special Exhibitions; Bilingual Mobile App; Student Group Tours; Adult Group Tours; Docents; Museum Store; Public Lectures and Programs; Speaker Series; Panel Discussions; Film Series; Educator Training Workshops; Yom HaShoah Commemoration; Adult Education and Professional Development Programs; Survivor Speakers; Video Library; Research Library

Address: 715 N. Oregon
El Paso, TX 79902
Phone: 915-351-0048
Fax: 915-351-0908
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Website: https://elpasoholocaustmuseum.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EPHM84

Director/Persons-in-Charge: Jamie Flores, Executive Director; Mika Cohen Jones, Board President
Principal Staff Members:
Paulino Lopez, Fund Development Coordinator
Cynthia Serafin, Volunteer and Visitor Services Coordinator

Year Established: 1985
Staff: Salaried - 3; Volunteer - 30

Type of Organization or Mission: Museum and Study Center

Services: Traveling exhibits; Docent and teacher training; Lectures; Yom Ha Shoah commemorations; Speakers' bureau; Interfaith activities; Group tours; Oral histories; Curriculum development; Education trunks for middle and high schools

Address: 5410 Caroline St.
Houston, TX 77004
Phone: 713-942-8000
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Website: https://hmh.org/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Kelly Zuniga, Ed.D., CEO
Principal Staff Members:
Tamara Savage, Managing Director/Director of Public Programs
Mary Lee Webeck, Ph.D. HMH Holocaust & Genocide Education Endowed Chair
Connie Boyd, Director of Development
Kristin Albers Lamm, Chief Financial Officer
Carol Manley, Chief Curator of Collections and Exhibitions/Registrar
Robin Cavanaugh, Chief Marketing Officer
Madelyn Strubelt, Director of Visitor and Volunteer Services
Margaret Sasaki, Director of Grants and Research
Jenna Norris, Librarian
Wendy Warren, Director of Education

Year Established: 1996
Staff: Salaried - 32; Volunteer - 300

Days and Hours Open to the Public: https://hmh.org/visit/

Type of Organization or Mission: Museum and Education Center Holocaust Museum Houston is dedicated to educating people about the Holocaust, remembering the six million Jews and other innocent victims, and honoring the survivors' legacy. Using the lessons of the Holocaust and other genocides, we teach the dangers of hatred, prejudice and apathy.

Services: Permanent and changing exhibits; Public programs and lectures; Library (research and member lending); Audio-visual collection; On-line survivor testimonies; Speakers? bureau; Docent-led museum tours; Audio headset tours; Museum store; Online bookstore; Yom Hashoah commemoration; Docent training program; Survivor memory project; Oral history project; Second Generation Speakers' bureau/Through Their Eyes

Publications: Print and e-newsletters; News for Educators, e-newsletter; Curriculum and study guides for exhibits; Questionable Issue: Currency of the Holocaust; There is No Why Here; Plowing Stones: Poems of the Holocaust (English and Spanish); Where is my Family? (video) / DVD and curriculum guide; Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan; The Album: Shadow of Memory; When They Came to Take My Father: Voices of the Holocaust; Arando Priedras: Poemas del Holocausto; How Healing Becomes Killing: Eugenics, Euthanasia, Extermination

Education Institutes: Spector/Warren Fellowship for Future Teachers (in conjunction with Syracuse University); Warren Fellowship for Future Teachers; Max M. Kaplan Summer Institute for Educators

Education Programs and Services: K-16 student programs; Teacher resources; Content-specific one-day workshops (in museum, schools, community and conference settings); Digital curriculum trunks (i-Pad based); Juvenile justice education; Law enforcement and SLEASociety (in cooperation with the Houston Police Department and the Anti-Defamation league); Adult education programs; Yom Hashoah scholarship contest; Educator in Motion- Bilingual school and community outreach program; Engines of Change- Student ambassador program for high school students

Address: P.O. Box 12276 
Austin, TX 78711-2276
Phone: 512-463-5108
Email: https://thgaac.texas.gov/about/contact
Website: https://thgaac.texas.gov/
Friends of the THGC: https://thgaac.texas.gov/volunteer/friends-of-the-thgaac

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/THGAAC/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thgaac/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/thgaac

Director/Person-in-Charge: Kenneth Goldberg, Chair; Joy Nathan, Executive Director
Principal Staff Members:
Arielle Epstein, Regional Coordinator & Communications Specialist
Lauren Fryer, Regional Coordinator & Volunteer Specialist
Elizabeth Langford, Executive Assistant
J.E. Wolfson, PhD, THGAAC State Coordinator of Education
Cheyanne Perkins, Regional Coordinator & Grants Specialist

Year Established: 2021

Mission: The mission of the Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission (THGAAC) is to combat and confront hatred, prejudice, and indifference by educating all Texans about the Holocaust and other genocides in an effort to dismantle antisemitism and prevent such future atrocities.

Services: Commissioners and staff members connect with thousands of Texans across the state each year by promoting Holocaust education, raising awareness about genocide, and educating Texans. They: Partner with community organizations and museums on programs, events, and outreach; Support schools with resources for Holocaust Remembrance Week and other curriculum needs; Provide opportunities for Texans to volunteer, host or speak at events, or become a Friend of the THGAAC; Support public officials to call out hate, fight for policies that combat antisemitism, and attend or speak at community events; and Provide grants to Texas nonprofits that offer services or programs related to or in support of THGAAC’s mission.

Address: PO Box 436
Jeffersonville, VT 05464
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Website: https://www.holocaustmemorial-vt.org/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Debora Steinermann, President

Address: 5000 Corporate Woods Drive, Suite 200
Virginia Beach, VA 23462
Phone: 757-965-6100
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Website: https://holocaustcommission.jewishva.org/

Year Established: 1980
Staff: Salaried - 2; Volunteer - 25 +

Type of Organization or Mission: Educational and resource center

Services: Yom Hashoah commemoration; Annual Elie Wiesel writing and visual arts competitions; Excellence in Holocaust education award; Biennial educators' conference; Multi-media programs for students, military, and community groups; Lending library for educational materials and videos

Publications: Video: Surviving Hatred: Witness to the Holocaust (28 min.); To Life: Stories of Courage and Survival as told by Hampton Roads Holocaust Survivors, Liberators and Rescuers; Video Series: What We Carry - a film and artifact presentation on the lives of four Holocaust survivors

Address: P.O. Box 6153
Newport News, VA 23606-6153   
Phone: 757-930-2124
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Website: https://www.holocaust-trc.org

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Mark Nataupsky, President
Principal Staff members: 
Shelly Portnoy, Vice President
Bill Muir, Vice President for Technology
Marilyn J. Nataupsky, Secretary

Year Established: 1995
Staff: Volunteer - 1

Type of Organization or Mission: Holocaust Teacher Resource Center (TRC) on the Internet

Services: Links to other Holocaust sites; Classroom materials; Lesson plans; Curricula; Essays; Book reviews; Annotated bibliographies and videographies; Listserver (moderated); Links to other Holocaust materials

Address: 2000 East Cary St.
Richmond, 23223
Phone: 804-257-5400
Fax: 804-257-4314
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Website: https://www.vaholocaust.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VHMrichmond
Twitter: http://twitter.com/VaHolocaust
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/vaholocaust/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Samuel Asher, Executive Director
Principal Staff Members:
Megan Ferenczy, Director of Education
Matthew Simpson, Director of Guest Services
Tim Hensley, Director of Collections

Year Established: 1997
Staff: Salaried - 19

Type of Organization or Mission: The Virginia Holocaust Museum preserves and documents the Holocaust in exhibits and its archival collections. Through the permanent exhibits, educational programming, and outreach, the Museum employs the history of the Holocaust and other genocides to educate and inspire future generations of Virginians to fight prejudice and indifference.

Publications: De Malyene; To See, To Feel, To Know: Experiencing the Holocaust through the Virginia Holocaust Museum by E.A. Custalow

Services: Docent led tours through exhibitions; Film Screenings, and other special programs; Outreach Requests; Carol M. Weinstein Holocaust Research Library and Archives; Collect, records of oral histories from Survivors of the Holocaust & modern genocides; Alexander Lebenstein Teacher Education Institute (TEI); Professional Development Workshops for educators and law enforcement; Lectures from historians, Survivors of the Holocaust &modern genocides; Collect, record and transcribe oral histories of Holocaust survivors, Liberators and victims of other genocides

Address: P.O. Box 27500
Seattle, 98165-2500
Phone: 206-365-7770
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Website: https://www.musicofremembrance.org/ 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SeattleMOR

Director/Person-in-Charge: Mina Miller, Artistic Director & President
Principal Staff Members: 
Micah Shelton, Administrative Assistant

Year Established: 1998
Staff: Salaried - 3; Volunteer - 20

Type of Organization or Mission: Music of Remembrance (MOR) fills a unique spiritual and cultural role in Seattle and the United States through its dedication to remembering Holocaust musicians and their art. MOR presents musical performances and educational activities related to the Holocaust, commissions new works, and records and broadcasts performances. Our mission is not religious, nor is its scope limited to Jewish music.

Services: Performance of two major concerts annually at Seattle?s Benaroya Hall, coinciding with the anniversaries of Kristallnacht & Yom HaShoah; Presentation of free lecture/chamber music series, Sparks of Glory, featuring new and rarely played works drawn from MOR performances; Development and presentation of educational materials and curricula for pre-college and college level students

Publications: Monthly Newsletter; Brochures; CDs (all available from website): The Art from Ashes, (CD, Innova Records, 2002); Thomas Pastieri's Letter to Warsaw; (CD, Naxos Records, 2004); Hans Krasa's Brudibar (CD, Naxos Records, 2006); Jake Heggie, For a Look or a Touch (Naxos, 2008); Schoenfield & Schwartz (Naxos, 2009)

Documentaries: UNSILENCED, Produced by John Sharify, 2009 DVD; The Boys of Terezin, Produced by John Sharify, 2011 DVD